GENET conferences

 

In April, GENET members meet in Brussels to attend the General Assembly. The second annual meeting is either an internal member meeting or a public conference.

• In January 2006, the Second European Conference on GMO-free Regions, Biodiversity and Rural Development in Berlin.
• In January 2005, GENET in co-operation with the Assembly of European Regions and the Foundation on Future Farming organized the European Conference on GMO-free Regions, biodiversity & rural development which brought together particpants from governmental organisations, NGOs, farmers' organisations and the private sector.
• In 2003, GENET organised an European conference on GMO-free zones in Vienna that brought together 45 mainly NGO participants from 26 European countries.
• In 1999 and 2000, GENET supported national NGOs in Spain and in Portugal to initiate the public discussion on GE issues with public conferences.